Pierre Assouline

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| birth_place = Casablanca, Morocco

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| nationality = French

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Novelist
essayist
biographer

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| notableworks = Biography of Hergé, Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Lutetia

| awards = Le Prix Maison de la Presse (2005), Le Prix de la langue française (2007), Le prix Méditerranée (2011), Le prix littéraire Prince-Pierre-de-Monaco (2011)

| website = {{URL|passouline.blog.lemonde.fr}}

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Pierre Assouline (born 17 April 1953) is a French writer and journalist. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco to a Jewish family.{{Cite web | url=https://forward.com/tag/pierre-assouline/ |title = Pierre Assouline}} He has published several novels and biographies, and also contributes articles for the print media and broadcasts for radio.

As a biographer, he has covered a diverse and eclectic range of subjects, including:

Henri Cartier-Bresson, the legendary photographer
Marcel Dassault, the aeronautics pioneer
Gaston Gallimard, the publisher
Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the art dealer
Georges Simenon, the detective novelist and creator of Inspector Maigret

Several of these books have been translated into English and the Henri Cartier-Bresson biography has been translated into Chinese.

As a journalist, Assouline has worked for the leading French publications Lire and Le Nouvel Observateur. He also publishes a blog, "La république des livres".

Assouline was the editor of La Révolution Wikipédia, a collection of essays about Wikipedia by postgraduate journalism students under his supervision.{{Cite web |url=http://medias.lemonde.fr/mmpub/edt/doc/20070709/933519_intro_wikipedia.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=19 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219183426/http://medias.lemonde.fr/mmpub/edt/doc/20070709/933519_intro_wikipedia.pdf |archive-date=19 February 2019 |url-status=dead }} Assouline contributed the preface.{{cite web|url=https://www.cultura.com/la-revolution-wikipedia-9782755500516.html|access-date=17 April 2023|website=cultura.com|title=La revolution wikipedia|language=fr}}

In January 2007 Assouline published a blog post criticizing Wikipedia's article on the Dreyfus Affair.{{Cite web |url=https://www.liberation.fr/ecrans/2007/07/09/les-erreurs-traquees-de-wikipedia_952560 |title=Les erreurs traquées de Wikipédia |date=9 July 2007}}